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PRIORITY PEKING TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

PEKING TELEGRAM NO.12 TO HONG KONG

CONFIDENTIAL

16 January 1969

Addressed to Hong Kong telegram No.12 of 16 January, repeated for information to FCO

I see from South China Morning Post of 11 January that

a detainee released on 7 January, has defied a police supervision order to report daily to a police station for a period of 3 months, and is now liable to arrest and imprisonment, The Hong Kong Communist Press has apparently denounced this supervision order as "Fascist Persecution".

.2. I was not aware that certain released detainees were

placed under supervision orders. I should be grateful for information on Hong Kong policy in this respect, and details of those detainees who have been required to register with police.

3. Am I right in thinking that Communist prisoners have consistently defied such regulations in the past? If so is there not a serious risk that by imposing them we undo the political benefit arising from releases and expose our- selves to charges of duplicity?

FCO pass Priority Hong Kong,

Mr. Cradock

[Repeated as requested].

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